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Rafael weakened Saturday to a tropical storm and was expected to dissolve over the Gulf of Mexico in the coming days after barreling across Cuba as a Category 3 hurricane. Rafael was located 290 miles (470 km) north-northwest of Progreso,…

A U.S. guided-missile destroyer and a Canadian frigate sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Oct. 20, less than a week after communist China conducted military exercises around Taiwan. The transit through the Taiwan Strait, one of the busiest waterways in…

Conservative House Leader Andrew Scheer won’t say whether his party will scale back or fully scrap Canada’s federal dental care program, despite new data showing nearly 650,000 Canadians have used the plan. A national dental care program was one of…

The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared mpox a global public health emergency for the second time in two years, following an outbreak of the viral infection in Democratic Republic of Congo that has spread to neighbouring countries. An emergency…

More than 5,000 people isolated by flooding in northwest North Korea were rescued in airlifts and other evacuation work supervised by leader Kim Jong Un, state media reported Monday. Heavy rainfall on Saturday had caused a river on the North…